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...last week than any of the many opera rumors of the past year. Soprano Maria Jeritza and Tenor Beniamino Gigli, both out of the Metropolitan this year, were two names connected with it. Richard Strauss, the story went, would be one of its conductors, Fritz Reiner another. Max Reinhardt, Ernst Lubitsch and Robert Edmond Jones would stage its productions in up-to-date fashion. Youthful members of Society would be called upon for support instead of the staid and settled folk who sit in the boxes at the Metropolitan Opera House. Would this be the opera company to establish itself...
Trouble in Paradise (Paramount) is a triumph of direction and decor which could have been accomplished only by that scowling, heavy-jowled Teuton who is Paramount's chief contribution to the civilized cinema, Ernst Lubitsch. As a rule, Director Lubitsch likes to run songs through his pictures, to accent moods and italicize bon mots. This time the songs are inaudible but they are somehow implied in the flavor of the picture?like the olive which can be tasted in a good Martini cocktail even when it is not there...
...best section of Act I is "Impromptu" laid in the music publishing office of Ernst Weber at Munich. To it come apple-cheeked Dr. Lessing (Al Shean), his pretty, wide-eyed daughter Sieglinde (Katherine Carrington of Face the Music) and her rustic boy friend Karl (Walter Slezak). These bucolics have arrived in town with the walking club from the mountain village of Edendorf where everyone seems to have been born with a pitchpipe in his mouth. Unhappily for them, the rural lovers meet a playwright and his man-killing mistress, an opera star, impersonated with gusto by beauteous Natalie Hall...
Large creditors centered some hopes last week on a writ served in Stockholm on Ernst Kreuger, the 80-year-old father of Scoundrel Ivar, and other directors of his collapsed holding company, Kreuger & Toll. The writ charges Father Kreuger & Directors with "gross negligence," accuses them of letting Scoundrel Ivar do with the company whatever he liked, seeks to collect from the Board of Directors damages equivalent to the losses of Kreuger & Toll. How great these losses are, accountants who have been ferreting & figuring ever since last spring were still unable to say last week...
...Died. Ernst Freund, 68, professor in the University of Chicago Law School, famed authority on jurisprudence; of heart trouble; in Chicago...